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Founder of Amsterdam Red Light District "goodwill" center dead at 94

Alida Margaretha Bosshardt died Monday, June 25, of old age, according to Salvation Army spokeswoman Hella van der Schoot. Boddhardt joined the Salvation Army in 1934 and established a "goodwill" center in Amsterdam's Red Light District following World War II. The shelter assisted prostitutes and their children, the homeless, and drug addicts. Bosshardt spent more than 50 years in the Salvation Army, retiring in 1978 at age 65, but continued to volunteer and attend meetings until recently. In 2004, she received a knighthood in the Netherlands' Order of Oranje Naussau and the Israeli Holocaust museum gave her a "Righteous Among the Nations" award for helping Jewish children during the war. Bosshardt was 94.

Sources: Yahoo! News, Wikipedia

Posted by Corey Anderson at July 6, 2007 12:03 PM

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